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  1. That is nonsense ... on Oracle Calls Java Serialization 'A Horrible Mistake', Plans to Dump It (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would serialization be a security risk?

    Hu? Cant ... you write to a disk or to a socket and thats it.

    Sure, I'm nitpicking, because deserialization might be a security risk.

    However only if you actually do it and e.g. leave open paths how bad files can end on your disk, which you then read, or open a socket and accept incoming serialized objects.

    A typical Java program is absolutely not vulnerable to anything regarding serialization unless the programmer (intentionally?) made it so.

    Articles about this (and basically every post here in the story while I type this): are simply wrong.

    Java Serialization was once its strongest point of success. Many GUI builders let you edit "beans" and simply serialize the GUI as an graph of objects that simply gets read in again when the application starts and you call the setVisible(true) method to show your window.

    Not needing to write any boilerplate code for writing and reading objects is a huge time saver and simplification.

  2. Re:Here's the bottom line on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    $30,000/year you are already among the richest of people who have ever lived, and still probably within the 1% globally.
    Emphasizes mine: HA! HA! HA! HA!
    For very big amounts of one percent that might work ... did you want to write 50%? And made 2 typos?

  3. Re:Hard to lower the nutrition of plain white rice on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The amount of minerals depends on the soil where it is planted, like for every plant.

  4. Re:Hard to lower the nutrition of plain white rice on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Rice does not contain gluten.

    But it's arguably better for you without the hull.
    Indeed (facepalm), and that is why most Asian and European rice is eaten with the hull. Barboiled (sp?) is nothing that improves rice ... it strips it from everything except hydrocarbons.

  5. Re:Hard to lower the nutrition of plain white rice on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Starving people need proteins, not sugar.

  6. Re:Population on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Hint: Sub saharan kids adopted to US don't need help just to manage their everyday lives throughout their adulthood. People below 70 points of IQ generally do. When you're around 70 on average, that literally means that half of your population is below 70, and meaningfully many of them a lot below that. That's horrifying, and that is what hunger crisis a few decades did to some of the populations in the world.
    Hint: it is more likely that they fail performing in your IQ tests. Likewise you would fail in theirs. The simplest thing is language comprehension.

    E.g. what is the meaning of:
    eventuell/eventually
    aktuell/actually
    in english, and in german? No, they don't mean the same ... like water versus wasser.

  7. Re:Population on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The interesting word is could.

    And if you think about it: in which areas would it? And how long would go that on?
    Where would we lose arable land? And would that outweigh it?

    A benevolent dictator probably could push a master plan that the whole world somehow shares the food/arable land.

    But most likely you come from a country that will lose most of its arable land due to global warming and rather wages a war to get "food" from the "lucky winners", or force them that the world trade of food is only done in your currency etc ... p.p.

  8. Re:Population on As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That argument makes no sense. Africans probably have the lowest CO2 emissions on the planet.

  9. However in the real world, if you are to close to a car in front of you, making an emergency brake, and you crash into it: it is your fault for being to close.

    It does not need an alternate universe to figure that you are either an idiot or have problems with comprehension, both in reading and in following what "automatic" actually means.

  10. If you would drive a german car with "driver assist system" (line following, pedestrian recognition, range detection and automatic braking etc.) then you can only overrun a pedestrian who jumps voluntarily into the path to close to brake.
    In other words, if a person stands in front you and you actively aim to overrun it the car will brake and will not let you.
    Note: we are not talking about self driving here, but simple "driver assistance functions".
    Heck, the cars have problems with chalk figures drawn on the ground by kids, because "better save than sorry" they mistake them sometimes for a person lying on the ground.

  11. Voice interfaces are not clunky.
    Why would they?

    And there are plenty of people who have either no PC or the PC not connected to home entertainment or smart home electronics.

    "Alexia, AC up 2degrees" ... how hard can the be? And how long does it take you to find the AC function on your PC, or do you have the AC control panel always open floating on top of the other apps?

    Sigh ... can handle a PC but is to dumb to talk to a voice interface.

  12. Doesn't anyone else remember life before there were smartphones? We all lived just fine. ;-)
    Actually it was not fine. Idiots kept sending me text messages. And some important enough that I had to answer them.
    Now I use a smart phone, and it adjusts spelling correction automatically to the keyboard I use.

    I actually rarely do more than 10 phone calls in a year. But smart phone features I use every day.

  13. Re:"...and deal with engine-water interactions..." on Ariane Chief Seems Frustrated With SpaceX For Driving Down Launch Costs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, obviously, and as you likely see: it was inside of a capsule.
    OR at least: the engine ignited OUTSIDE of the water, so there was no engine/water interaction.

  14. Because you are the troll.

    Responsible is not to upload pictures you are not allowed to upload.

    I can make pictures of myself or allow my partner to make pictures of me as long as I want. There is nothing irresponsible about that.

  15. Re:Have any of you ever dealt with revenge pr0n? on Facebook Asks British Users To Submit Their Nudes as Protection Against Revenge Porn (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Luckily, that you have no nod points!
    His comment was utterly stupid and you wanting to mod him up is even more stupid.

  16. Re:Have any of you ever dealt with revenge pr0n? on Facebook Asks British Users To Submit Their Nudes as Protection Against Revenge Porn (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely you wanted one single person to see it.
    So?

    What is your point now?

  17. Re:FB should make downloadable tool available to on Facebook Asks British Users To Submit Their Nudes as Protection Against Revenge Porn (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    And how good are they with images that got scaled down from 2000x1000 to 1000x500, or got cropped, or got piped through picmonkey or brightness got adjusted?
    It is pretty challenging to hash pictures different "forms" of the same picture have the same hash.

  18. Well, I agree with most what you say, however:
    A skilled martial artist, a woman, will take down any man who has no fighting skills.
    A woman skilled in self defense, who has her wits together hardly will be taken down by any man, regardless if he does martial arts.
    And any woman that is used to fighting systems, like Brazilian Ju Jutsu or Judo also will be both very hard to be taken down and on the other hand very easy will take down any man, regardless of size or power.
    Unfortunately in western culture people mix up "martial arts", "self defense" and "fighting systems" and think everything is the same, and in some countries "irresponsible teachers" sell "martial arts" as equal to "self defense".
    And no, a gun does not help you if you have self defense training. When you realize you are assaulted and about to be raped you are already on the ground and your hand bag with gun is lying 10 feet away elsewhere.

    If I would organize schools, martial arts or self defense were mandatory classes on top of the ordinary sports classes. First of all it gives confidence, agility, body power and helps stay fit. Secondly you easy find like minded people from the opposite sex (later in life when you continue the sport and go to a club). Thirdly you don't develop the attitude that you can dominate one and force him/her with physical power to something. Supposed you do some martial art/fighting system, then you have learned that every random person you met during practice is either far more advanced than you: no point in trying to win over them, or so far below you that there is no point in fighting them at all.

    Martial arts are a big equalizer. Because the longer you practice them, the more you advance, there is no real upper limit. (Of course every person has their own upper limit, but can only find it by practicing till s/he is really to old to continue)

    When you look at the poor sod sitting at the edge of the tatami who does not even know how to knot his belt, you don't laugh about him, but show him how to do it. Because X years before you where that poor sod, and some brown belt came smiling and helped you out.

    Anyway, just a random thought about your point regarding "sexual assault is not about the sexual act but more about the feeling of power the assaulter gains", because that is very true!

  19. Re:Probably start of a new strategy on Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    It *used* to be dire predictions getting ever closer and more dire, but that didn't seem to work, so now they're transitioning to monetary measures.
    You are an idiot. There never where "predictions" like that. Only newspaper head lines.
    Everybody with the simplest grasp of science knows the turning point is now, and was not 20 30 or 50 years ago. And 50 years ago everyone new till roughly 2000 not much would have happened. So why would they make honest predictions before that point in time?
    And why exactly are you so dumb that you believed them in case you stumbled over one randomly?

    The big change climate is now over a timeframe of the next 100 years, depending how quick we stop it, or the next 300 years if we fail to stop it.

    Calling that a "religion" is the dumbest thing a man can do, idiot.

  20. Re:Only $20 Trillion on Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it is only going to cause $20 T not to do so, it would appear to be a good deal just to do nothing.
    On the first glance: for the survivors, yes.
    On second glance: you most likely would never survive it or not like to live under the conditions the survivors will do.

  21. who's focus is going to be employing manufacturing labor
    Hae? That does not make sense.
    Their focus is to employ scientists.

  22. Re:Subsidised industry == Industrial polictics on Ariane Chief Seems Frustrated With SpaceX For Driving Down Launch Costs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A truly free market health care system would have to allow providers to turn people away when they cannot pay.
    For that you have health insurance.

    What has a free market, on the side providing the services, to do with not having a health insurance for the people who require the services?

    A free market is supposed to drive the prices down. Obviously a free market (with no regulations) can not work in the health sector: you would pay everything to help your little daughter if the asshole doctor demands it. That has nothing to do with costs or competition ... if it takes 6hours to drive your little daughter into a cheaper hospital, but she dies in 4h, you pay what ever he wants. And if it took only 2hours, the next hospital will have increased its price, just for you. Because: now you have understood that you have to pay what they demand or your daughter dies now in only 2h!!

  23. You missed the point.
    Space X sells flights to the US government for 100M and the exact same flight for an European customer for 50M. So obviously Adriane/ESA can not compete with that, and that is not a question of costs or price, but: dumping

    The correct answer here is to be innovative yourself in different ways
    Yes, but they can't do that if Space X bankrupts them. If you had read further: the market at the moment is to small that ESA can invest into reusable vehicles. Because then the workers at ESA would only work 3month a year.

    The matter is not cost or subsidizing, the matter is price dumping.

  24. Re:"...and deal with engine-water interactions..." on Ariane Chief Seems Frustrated With SpaceX For Driving Down Launch Costs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    ICBMs are launched from launch tubes. High pressure nitrogen like in an air gun shots the missile out of the water. The missile is inside of a plastic shell. The shell gets dropped with explosives: then the rocket engine fires.

    So no: there is absolutely nothing in common with a rocket that is floating in salt water and has to fire its engines under water to lift off.

  25. Re:Isn't Arianespace government-subsidized? on Ariane Chief Seems Frustrated With SpaceX For Driving Down Launch Costs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ESA is not France. It is European.
    The CEO happens to be a French, and the launch site is technically in France, French Guiana (South America).
    So, no: France can't just raise a tax. And Europe neither. Imagine the outcry if Europe would put a "sales tax" on a launch made by an american company on american soil, just because the customer is a European? WTO would jump us ... but well with current "dumping practice" the WTO probably jumps Space X, who knows ;D